Alfred Munnings

Sir Alfred Munnings was an English painter, the son of a miller from Mendham on the Suffolk and Norfolk border, who became one of the best-known painters of horses of his day. He painted horse fairs, Gypsy camps and hop pickers in Norfolk and Cornwall, spent time with the Newlyn artists before the First World War, and later won rich commissions for racehorses and hunting scenes. He was President of the Royal Academy from 1944 to 1949 and an outspoken enemy of modern art. Castle House in Dedham, Essex, his home for forty years, is now the Munnings Art Museum, and Tate holds several of his paintings.